One reason is that al-Qaeda, though weaker in Iraq, has created a new sanctuary in Pakistan's tribal belt.

理由一，基地的势力虽然在伊拉克有所削弱，但却在巴基斯坦的部落带里建立了新的避难所。

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The televised bidding, launched today at Baghdad's al-Rasheed hotel, marked the first time since 1972 that foreign energy companies had been allowed to consolidate their influence in Iraq.

今天在巴格达拉希德大饭店举行的这次电视直播的竞标标志着自1972年外国能源公司可以巩固他们在伊拉克的影响以来的头一次。

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Like millions of others, 37-year-old Wafaa al Nuaimi fled Iraq in the hopes of giving her three children a chance at a better life.

象上百万的其他难民一样，37岁的瓦夫埃 阿 努阿米怀揣着给三个孩子过上更好的生活创造一个更好的条件的希望逃离了伊拉克。

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He asks if Iraq wants to return to square one and the days of coups, chaos,sectarianism, al Qa'eda,and Saddam Hussein.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

While there was no immediate claim of responsibility, suspicion quickly fell on al-Qaida in Iraq as well as Sunni militants.

VOA: standard.2010.05.10

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has insisted,repeatedly, that Iraq's security forces are capable of imposing law and order.

VOA: standard.2009.06.01

Our understanding of the relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda is evolving and is based on sources of varying reliability....We have solid reporting of senior level contacts between Iraq and al Qaeda going back a decade.

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"Al Qaeda wants us out of Iraq because al Qaeda wants to use Iraq as an example of defeating freedom and democracy, " he said.

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Al-Masri is an Egyptian who replaced Abu Musab al-Zarqawi as head of al Qaeda in Iraq after al-Zarqawi's death in a U.S. airstrike last June.

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